The First Program You Ever Wrote
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just thinking back between to the first time, and the very first program ever that i ever "wrote" was a DOS "application" [yes, it was called an application] that had to calculate tax [@ 14%]on any price you input. ANY price. ;P > Enter price: 10.00 Tax = 1.14 Total Price = 11.40 and it was sooo cool! nevermind it took me the best of three hours to write with borland c++ :D [and i copied half of it anyway cos i just didn't get what all the ;'s were doing there] the journey from that day to now... well, let's just say things are a little different- but programming still remains sooo cool. anyhoooo.. i was wondering just where/how did most programmers start out with their first ever "application"?
:: have the courage to use your own reason
Hmm, I don't really remember.. But, I got a ZX81 back in 1981 ;-) I still remember when I unpacked it and looked at the keyboard, and wondered about what all that "run", "goto" and other stuff did. When I got it hooked up to my parents TV, I thought I could use it as a calculator, so when I wrote "10+10=" it should show the result. The ZX 81 always started every line with a Basic keyword which was hardcoded to different keys on the keyboard so you didn't have to write them yourself. I pressed the key for "print" without knowing what it was supposed to do, and wrote "10+10=" and nothing happened. Hmmm :confused: Then I deleted the "=" and pressed enter, and huh! The TV actually showed "20" on the next line. After that I started to read the manual and a looong adventure into programming started. I know, not my first program, but related I think :)
- Anders My new photo website[^]
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just thinking back between to the first time, and the very first program ever that i ever "wrote" was a DOS "application" [yes, it was called an application] that had to calculate tax [@ 14%]on any price you input. ANY price. ;P > Enter price: 10.00 Tax = 1.14 Total Price = 11.40 and it was sooo cool! nevermind it took me the best of three hours to write with borland c++ :D [and i copied half of it anyway cos i just didn't get what all the ;'s were doing there] the journey from that day to now... well, let's just say things are a little different- but programming still remains sooo cool. anyhoooo.. i was wondering just where/how did most programmers start out with their first ever "application"?
:: have the courage to use your own reason
I used to copy Basic programs out of magazines with my dad into an Acorn Electron (evil twin of the BBC Basic). This was circa 1985. Those things were thousands of lines long with no debugger - if it didnt run it was a case of scanning through line for line to try to spot the typo. Occasionaly the magazine itself would contain a typo - those were the REALLY fun ones.
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just thinking back between to the first time, and the very first program ever that i ever "wrote" was a DOS "application" [yes, it was called an application] that had to calculate tax [@ 14%]on any price you input. ANY price. ;P > Enter price: 10.00 Tax = 1.14 Total Price = 11.40 and it was sooo cool! nevermind it took me the best of three hours to write with borland c++ :D [and i copied half of it anyway cos i just didn't get what all the ;'s were doing there] the journey from that day to now... well, let's just say things are a little different- but programming still remains sooo cool. anyhoooo.. i was wondering just where/how did most programmers start out with their first ever "application"?
:: have the courage to use your own reason
Tax = Round(Price * TaxFactor, 2) - PriceYour app reengineered. Mwahahah!-- Mit viel Oktan und frei von Blei, eine Kraftstoff wie Benziiiiiiin!
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I used to copy Basic programs out of magazines with my dad into an Acorn Electron (evil twin of the BBC Basic). This was circa 1985. Those things were thousands of lines long with no debugger - if it didnt run it was a case of scanning through line for line to try to spot the typo. Occasionaly the magazine itself would contain a typo - those were the REALLY fun ones.
The first program I remember writing without any help from anyone was in 1979 and was on an Atari 400. It was written in Atari Basic and calculated complex numbers. The first program I ever made available for download was in 1983 and allowed the user to select his own color scheme inside the Turbo Pascal 1.0 editor.
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on the good ole spectrum 48k 10 Print "Hello World" 20 Goto 10 think thats the right syntax! :rolleyes:
you and me both brother .... :-D
Regards Ray "Je Suis Mort De Rire" Blogging @ Keratoconus Watch
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Tax = Round(Price * TaxFactor, 2) - PriceYour app reengineered. Mwahahah!-- Mit viel Oktan und frei von Blei, eine Kraftstoff wie Benziiiiiiin!
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just thinking back between to the first time, and the very first program ever that i ever "wrote" was a DOS "application" [yes, it was called an application] that had to calculate tax [@ 14%]on any price you input. ANY price. ;P > Enter price: 10.00 Tax = 1.14 Total Price = 11.40 and it was sooo cool! nevermind it took me the best of three hours to write with borland c++ :D [and i copied half of it anyway cos i just didn't get what all the ;'s were doing there] the journey from that day to now... well, let's just say things are a little different- but programming still remains sooo cool. anyhoooo.. i was wondering just where/how did most programmers start out with their first ever "application"?
:: have the courage to use your own reason
My first program was a QBASIC program which played the indian national antheme. ( the secret is that i copied it from somewhere and just runned it ) But what a feeling that time ! I was on the moon when it completed successfully !!:-D
"A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street." -- Doug Linder
Anant Y. Kulkarni
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on the good ole spectrum 48k 10 Print "Hello World" 20 Goto 10 think thats the right syntax! :rolleyes:
So it wasn't just me fiddling with Speccies in WH Smiths then!
Asynes yw brassa ages kwilkynyow.
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I used to copy Basic programs out of magazines with my dad into an Acorn Electron (evil twin of the BBC Basic). This was circa 1985. Those things were thousands of lines long with no debugger - if it didnt run it was a case of scanning through line for line to try to spot the typo. Occasionaly the magazine itself would contain a typo - those were the REALLY fun ones.
Ya I started with those as well , The mags I used where called 'INPUT' and you could be certain that if he program was more than 5 lines long, it wouldn't work. Me and my brother would spend hours typing them in on the ZX spectrum (not easy as half rubber keys had rubbed off from playing games) to find they wouldn't work. Then spend ages trying to find a typo. Only to find out in another 5 issues time that yes they had got it wrong and they published some 'errata' to correct the program. :mad: the errata corrections never worked either though!! grrrrrrr was a frustrating time, and hasn't got that much better over the years!!
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just thinking back between to the first time, and the very first program ever that i ever "wrote" was a DOS "application" [yes, it was called an application] that had to calculate tax [@ 14%]on any price you input. ANY price. ;P > Enter price: 10.00 Tax = 1.14 Total Price = 11.40 and it was sooo cool! nevermind it took me the best of three hours to write with borland c++ :D [and i copied half of it anyway cos i just didn't get what all the ;'s were doing there] the journey from that day to now... well, let's just say things are a little different- but programming still remains sooo cool. anyhoooo.. i was wondering just where/how did most programmers start out with their first ever "application"?
:: have the courage to use your own reason
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just thinking back between to the first time, and the very first program ever that i ever "wrote" was a DOS "application" [yes, it was called an application] that had to calculate tax [@ 14%]on any price you input. ANY price. ;P > Enter price: 10.00 Tax = 1.14 Total Price = 11.40 and it was sooo cool! nevermind it took me the best of three hours to write with borland c++ :D [and i copied half of it anyway cos i just didn't get what all the ;'s were doing there] the journey from that day to now... well, let's just say things are a little different- but programming still remains sooo cool. anyhoooo.. i was wondering just where/how did most programmers start out with their first ever "application"?
:: have the courage to use your own reason
On the Tandy TRS80 my dad recovered from a skip when his University was having a clearout - I think it was something along the lines of: 10 PRINT "HELLO RICHARD" 20 GOTO 10 Then (with lots of help from my Dad) we made some kind of snow program, with white asterisks falling down the screen. The TRS80 was incredibly limited to what you could actually do - it had no graphics, just upper case characters and punctuation.
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My first program was a QBASIC program which played the indian national antheme. ( the secret is that i copied it from somewhere and just runned it ) But what a feeling that time ! I was on the moon when it completed successfully !!:-D
"A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street." -- Doug Linder
Anant Y. Kulkarni
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Hmm, I don't really remember.. But, I got a ZX81 back in 1981 ;-) I still remember when I unpacked it and looked at the keyboard, and wondered about what all that "run", "goto" and other stuff did. When I got it hooked up to my parents TV, I thought I could use it as a calculator, so when I wrote "10+10=" it should show the result. The ZX 81 always started every line with a Basic keyword which was hardcoded to different keys on the keyboard so you didn't have to write them yourself. I pressed the key for "print" without knowing what it was supposed to do, and wrote "10+10=" and nothing happened. Hmmm :confused: Then I deleted the "=" and pressed enter, and huh! The TV actually showed "20" on the next line. After that I started to read the manual and a looong adventure into programming started. I know, not my first program, but related I think :)
- Anders My new photo website[^]
Anders Molin wrote:
ut, I got a ZX81 back in 1981 ;) I still remember when I unpacked it and looked at the keyboard, and wondered about what all that "run", "goto" and other stuff did.
Recently I used a ZX81 emulator coded in JavaScript (:omg:) and I was shocked that I still remember most of those keyboard commands (on the "K" cursor state): "J" for "LOAD", "L" for "LET", and so on.
I don't see dead pixels anymore... Yes, even I am blogging now!
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just thinking back between to the first time, and the very first program ever that i ever "wrote" was a DOS "application" [yes, it was called an application] that had to calculate tax [@ 14%]on any price you input. ANY price. ;P > Enter price: 10.00 Tax = 1.14 Total Price = 11.40 and it was sooo cool! nevermind it took me the best of three hours to write with borland c++ :D [and i copied half of it anyway cos i just didn't get what all the ;'s were doing there] the journey from that day to now... well, let's just say things are a little different- but programming still remains sooo cool. anyhoooo.. i was wondering just where/how did most programmers start out with their first ever "application"?
:: have the courage to use your own reason
The first program I wrote that I remember was a text-based (teletype actually) Star Trek game on a PDP-11. 10x10 grid, your ship, phasers, photons, Romulan Neutral Zone, a couple planets to investigate, a space station to dock with. You basically had to wipe out the Romulans and save the planets, but some of them lurked hidden behind the neutral zone and you had to go hunt them down. Every turn reprinted the grid with updated positions and stats like shields, energy, etc. Let's see, that was in 8th grade, I think, over 30 years ago. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith -
just thinking back between to the first time, and the very first program ever that i ever "wrote" was a DOS "application" [yes, it was called an application] that had to calculate tax [@ 14%]on any price you input. ANY price. ;P > Enter price: 10.00 Tax = 1.14 Total Price = 11.40 and it was sooo cool! nevermind it took me the best of three hours to write with borland c++ :D [and i copied half of it anyway cos i just didn't get what all the ;'s were doing there] the journey from that day to now... well, let's just say things are a little different- but programming still remains sooo cool. anyhoooo.. i was wondering just where/how did most programmers start out with their first ever "application"?
:: have the courage to use your own reason
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on the good ole spectrum 48k 10 Print "Hello World" 20 Goto 10 think thats the right syntax! :rolleyes:
I'm sure I used to do something like PRINT "Hello ", or something else at the end of the line which resulted in the output going all over the screen rather than a column down the left. If I had more time, I put a loop in there and changed the foreground and background colours too!
Regards, Ray
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just thinking back between to the first time, and the very first program ever that i ever "wrote" was a DOS "application" [yes, it was called an application] that had to calculate tax [@ 14%]on any price you input. ANY price. ;P > Enter price: 10.00 Tax = 1.14 Total Price = 11.40 and it was sooo cool! nevermind it took me the best of three hours to write with borland c++ :D [and i copied half of it anyway cos i just didn't get what all the ;'s were doing there] the journey from that day to now... well, let's just say things are a little different- but programming still remains sooo cool. anyhoooo.. i was wondering just where/how did most programmers start out with their first ever "application"?
:: have the courage to use your own reason
it was probably 10 PRINT "Yay "; 20 Goto 10 in BASIC, on a Commodore PET.
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The first program I wrote that I remember was a text-based (teletype actually) Star Trek game on a PDP-11. 10x10 grid, your ship, phasers, photons, Romulan Neutral Zone, a couple planets to investigate, a space station to dock with. You basically had to wipe out the Romulans and save the planets, but some of them lurked hidden behind the neutral zone and you had to go hunt them down. Every turn reprinted the grid with updated positions and stats like shields, energy, etc. Let's see, that was in 8th grade, I think, over 30 years ago. Marc
People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith -
it was probably 10 PRINT "Yay "; 20 Goto 10 in BASIC, on a Commodore PET.
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I'm sure I used to do something like PRINT "Hello ", or something else at the end of the line which resulted in the output going all over the screen rather than a column down the left. If I had more time, I put a loop in there and changed the foreground and background colours too!
Regards, Ray
Yep, something with POKE 53280,X and POKE 53281,X on the C64 if I recall correct. ;)
Arjan
